Darrell Castle talks about the Notre Dame Cathedral fire, the arrest of Julian Assange, and the Blind Man's Matrix of 2019.

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WHO IS REALLY BLIND

Hello, this is Darrell Castle with today’s Castle Report. Today is Friday, April 19, 2019, and on this Report I first want to mention that this is Good Friday, or the Friday before Easter. There is not much good news in this Report, however, because as King Solomon told us about 3000 years ago, there is nothing new under the sun. Said in today’s vernacular, the expression would be' the more things seem to change, the more they stay the same". Solomon told us that he had everything and had tried everything. He had more than 1000 women at his beck and call. He was considered the richest man in the world as well as the wisest. People come from all over the world to see his treasures and partake of his wisdom but none of it was enough.

Vanity, vanity all is vanity he told us when he searched for green grass but found nothing but dry wilted grass wherever he looked.  As we continue to seek the green grass today, there are two stories that happened in the past week that I want to talk about and those are the fire at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, and the second is the arrest of Julian Assange at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London. Both these events feed into and illustrate the point of our Report and that is that often it is the ones who are not actually blind who cannot see. They are blind to what is happening and blind to the truth.

For the beginning of our story, fast forward about 1000 years from Solomon to that brief three year window when Jesus was about his public ministry. This account is recorded in the 9th chapter of the book of John, from which my pastor preached a wonderful sermon last Sunday and inspired my decision to tell the story in this manner.

Jesus, as witnessed by some of his disciples, encountered a man who had been blind from birth. Jesus spit on the ground and made some mud with his saliva. He put the mud on the man’s eyes and told him to go bathe in the pool of Siloam and when he did his sight was immediately restored. The religious leaders, and the Jews who were the power structure of the day, were outraged, saying that this man healed on the Sabbath, therefore, he cannot be of God because he violated one of our rules. They went to see the man’s mother and asked if he had really been blind from birth, and she said yes.   When they continued to question her she said look go ask him, he’s a grown man, let him answer you.

The man’s mother threw Jesus under the bus because she was afraid of being cast out of the Synagogue. When they told the man that Jesus was a sinner, he said, I don’t know about that but I do know that I was blind and now I see. He had a face to face encounter with truth and he could not deny it but they cast him out of the Synagogue anyway. Jesus said those who are blind are the ones who see and those who see are the blind ones. When those who are blind are exposed they turn mean and seek retribution and revenge.

We make up our reasons because we simply cannot accept the truth, especially when it contradicts the political narrative that we desperately cling to. The truth is a rebuke to whatever system we have chosen to believe in, so we must deny it. That is the backdrop for our story today and now you can fast forward to the year 2019.

We live in a false reality today, a matrix if you will. Some of the matrix has been built by ourselves, but most of it is designed and built by the political systems under which we live, and most of all it is enforced and reinforced by the worldwide media of all different platforms. They tell us,” oh yes, all smart people see it that way so if you want to be considered smart and not a social outcast you will see it that way too.” We are just like the blind man’s mother not wanting to be cast out so we silently comply.